Polkadot Weekly News February 22, 2021

Tokens and Parachains

The First Successful Cross-Chain Message Passing (XCMP) Transaction on Polkadot Testnet.
Introducing the PolkaPet Evolution Land.
vETH Multisig Deposits History.
Kylin Network Token Economy Whitepaper.
Polkamarkets Partners with Kylin Network.
Bridge Mutual Partners with Kylin Network.
Equilibrium Partners with Kylin Network.
Take a peek at the latest Litentry Roadmap.
Reef Finance Partners With Bandot to Leverage its Unsecured Stablecoin Credit Lending System.
Reef Finance expands its reach to the TRON and Harmony ecosystems.
A Letter to The Reef Community.
Key Functionality Of The EQ Token.
Interlay Integrates Band Protocol to Power Bitcoin on Polkadot.

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Polkadot Core

Remove all code related to sentry nodes.
Make it clear in CLI that paritydb is experimental.

Polkadot Referenda and Motions

#16 Increase number of active validators to 599.
#62 Upgrade of Polkadot Runtime to v28 has executed.

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increase the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#72 Treasury Proposal – High Performance Public Infrastructure (Milestone 2)
#76 Proposal: Parachain Lease Offering Dashboard.

Dates of Note

February 28: 17:51 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
February 28: Proposals to participate in the next Polkadot Decoded are due.
March 3, 17:45 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period.
March 11, 17:45 UTC: Start of next spending period
March 31, 18:45 UTC: Dispatch of referendum 16 if passed.
May 20: The next Polkadot Decoded event.
June 23, 15:00 UTC Substrate Seminar by Bill Laboon.
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
Q1 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
Q1 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.

Crypto Regulation

US Gov Fines Crypto Payments Firm BitPay For Servicing Sanctioned Countries.
US charges three North Korean hackers over $1.3bn cryptocurrency attacks.
Russia’s Opposition Leader Has Received 658 Bitcoin to Take Down Putin—Now Worth $32 Million.
Russia introduces draft law to tax cryptocurrency as property.
Australian Crypto Exchange to Delist BSV Over ‘Bullying’ Threat to Bitcoin Developers.

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Substrate Seminar on June 23 by Bill Laboon.

Other Crypto Related News

Tesla bitcoin gambit already made $1 billion, more than 2020 profit from car sales.
Ethereum Core Developers Eye Mid-April for ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork.
Traffic to Binance surges to record highs, site goes down for maintenance.

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Polkadot Weekly News February 15, 2021

Tokens and Parachains

Integrating Chainlink’s Market-Leading Oracle Network Into Plasm.
A List Of Kilt AMAs, Speeches, Articles & Interviews With Team Members Since Founding of This Very Exciting Project.
Kylin Network Token Economy Whitepaper.
Spotlight on RioChain Q1 2021 Tech Roadmap.
OptionRoom partners with Litentry to accelerate the adoption of Aggregated DID improving the OaaS model.
Reef Finance partners with Paralink to integrate its multi-chain oracle solutions.
Introducing Reef Bonds, a Flexible DeFi Investment Product.
How Equilibrium’s Stablecoin Works.

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Polkadot Community News

Submit Your Proposal to Speak at Polkadot Decoded 2021 by Feb 28.

Polkadot Core

Add warning to bond, not send.
Substrate v3.0/0.9 – Apollo 14.
Add Aventus ss58 address.
Polkadot v0.8.28-1.
add SS58 address for Ares.
Add Crust Network SS58 Address.
Polkadot v0.79.1.

Polkadot Referenda and Motions

#16 Increase number of active validators to 599.
#60 PolkaStats treasury expense proposal – operation costs for Polkadot, 21.12.2020 to 21.03.2021 has executed.
#61 SubstraTEE scalability M8.2 has executed.
#62 Upgrade of Polkadot Runtime to v28

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increase the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#100 Upgrade of Kusama Runtime to v2028 has executed.
#270 Kusama integration in Rotki – Milestone 2/2 has executed.

Dates of Note

February 16, 15:36 UTC: Start of new staking era.
February 17, 17:45 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
February 19, 8:54 UTC: Voting ends on council motion 62.
February 28: Proposals to participate in the next Polkadot Decoded are due.
March 3, 17:45 UTC: Dispatch of referendum 14 if passed.
March 3, 17:45 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period.
March 11, 17:45 UTC: Start of next spending period
March 31, 18:45 UTC: Dispatch of referendum 16 if passed.
May 20: The next Polkadot Decoded event.
June 23, 15:00 UTC Substrate Seminar by Bill Laboon.
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
Q1 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
Q1 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.

Crypto Regulation

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says ‘the Misuse of Cryptocurrencies Is a Growing Problem.
French official wants to change how Europe regulates crypto and blockchain.
Russia has imported its largest Bitcoin miner batch.
Exchanges warn that Hong Kong’s crypto retail trader ban could backfire.

Developer Related

Substrate Seminar on June 23 by Bill Laboon.

Other Crypto Related News

Bitcoin hits a record high of nearly $50,000 as major firms flock to crypto.
Ethereum 2.0 set to undergo first hard fork upgrade.
Cardano approaches a new major upgrade as ADA posts an inspired rally.

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Polkadot Weekly News February 8, 2021

Tokens and Parachains

Acala Launches the ‘Acala EVM’ for DeFi on Polkadot | Ethereum Compatibility with Unlimited Substrate Functionality.
Darwinia Mainnet Transfer is now live!
Zenlink and Darwinia reached a strategic partnership to collaboratively expand cross-chain asset transactions.
BiFi Integrates Chainlink Price Feeds into its Multichain DeFi Platform.
Crust Decentralized Storage Market technology internal testing has started, come and store your files!
Recap of RioDeFi’s Livestream AMA.
KILT’s Path to Parachains.
Paralink Network announces full-support for Edgeware, bringing oracles and validator participation.
Reef Finance partners with Paralink to integrate its multi-chain oracle solutions.
RockX Will Add EQ Support To Its Staking Platform.

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Polkadot Community News

The next Polkadot Decoded event will be held May 20th 2021.
Substrate Seminar on June 23 by Bill Laboon.

Polkadot Core

Disable Kademlia random walk when –reserved-nodes is passed.
Rename system_networkState to system_unstable_networkState.
contracts: Emit event on contract termination.

Polkadot Referenda and Motions

#14 Immediate Stolen DOT lock-up request has failed.
#15 Upgrade to Polkadot runtime v27 has executed.
#58 Gradual increase in the number of validators by 1 lot per day for 100 days has executed.
#16 Increase number of active validators to 599.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021 has executed.

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increase the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#99 Human verification for Registrar #1 has failed.
#265 Make Kusama database snapshots available on Polkashots.io has executed.
#267 Curator election for Sub-bounties extenstion bounty: Bryan Chen has executed.
#100 Upgrade of Kusama Runtime to v2028.

Dates of Note

February 9, 15:36 UTC: Start of next spending period.
February 10, 17:36 UTC: Start of new staking era.
February 12, 11:37 UTC: Voting ends on council motion 60.
February 15, 17:36 UTC: Start of next spending period.
February 28: Proposals to participate in the next Polkadot Decoded are due.
March 3, 17:36 UTC: Dispatch of referendum 14 if passed.
March 3, 17:36 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period.
March 31, 18:36 UTC: Dispatch of referendum 16 if passed.
May 20: The next Polkadot Decoded event.
June 23, 15:00 UTC Substrate Seminar by Bill Laboon.
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
Q1 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
Q1 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.

Crypto Regulation

Serbian Man Extradited to US After Being Indicted in $70M Crypto Fraud.
Kraken Adds 26 Crypto Trading Pairs to Capture Growing UK, Australia Markets.
Uphold to Launch Crypto Card in Europe After Optimus Acquisition.
IOHK on the brink of securing a massive Cardano government contract in Africa.

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Substrate Seminar on June 23 by Bill Laboon.

Other Crypto Related News

Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment.
Ethereum Futures Are Now Trading on CME.
In 61 days, Cardano will be completely in the hands of stake pool operators.

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Polkadot Weekly News February 1, 2021

Tokens and Parachains

Reef and Unifi Protocol Partner to offer Reef users Investment Baskets through Unifi’s Pools.
Recap of Marcus Crypto x RioDeFi AMA: introduction to RioDeFi Q1 Tech Roadmap, by James Anderson.
Crust Network and Moonbeam Collaborate For Decentralized Storage.
One-click Plasm testnet node on Ankr.

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Polkadot Community News

The next Polkadot Decoded event will be held May 20th 2021.
Proposals to participate in the next Polkadot Decoded event are due by February 28th 2021.
ChainX 2.0 Wallet Roasting Event.
CoinMetro will be listing DOT.

Polkadot Core

Refuse to start substrate without providing an explicit chain.
Use Extensible Multiaddress in all Polkadot Runtimes.
Fix Network trait implementation not doing what it’s supposed to do.
Fix state cache for cumulus.
Increase maximum size of transaction notifications.

Polkadot Referenda and Motions

#14 Immediate Stolen DOT lock-up request.
#15 Upgrade to Polkadot runtime v27.

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#258 Kusama Comics: visual explainers and Polkadot/Kusama blockchain promotion in social media has executed.
#260 Polkascan Foundation Social Contract with the Kusama Community for operational expenses of running polkascan.io during 1 February 2021 – 30 April 2021 has executed.
#261 OpenSquare’s treasury proposal for dotreasury M2 has executed.
#262 Fearless Wallet – Stage 3 Proposal – Staking, Libraries expansion, App Improvements. has executed.
#99 Human verification for Registrar #1.
#264 Bounty Proposal #2: Sub-Bounties Extension Implementation has executed.

Dates of Note

January 27, 17:00 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
January 30, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 215.
February 3, 17:22 UTC: Voting ends for referendum 14.
February 3, 17:22 UTC: Start of next spending period.
February 3, 17:22 UTC: Enactment of results from referendum 13.
February 3, 17:22 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
February 15, 17:22 UTC: Start of next spending period.
February 28: Proposals to participate in the next Polkadot Decoded are due.
March 3, 17:22 UTC: Dispatch of referendum 14 if passed.
May 20: The next Polkadot Decoded event.
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
Q1 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
Q1 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.

Crypto Regulation

What’s Next for U.S. Crypto Regulation.
Russian Public Officials Banned From Holding Cryptocurrency.
Judge Rejects Virgil Griffith’s Motion to Dismiss Charges of Aiding North Korea.

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Other Crypto Related News

Grayscale Files New Trusts for Cardano (ADA), Monero (XMR), Polkadot (DOT), and Two Others.
Grayscale Reopens Its Ethereum Trust to Investors.
In 61 days, Cardano will be completely in the hands of stake pool operators.

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Polkadot Weekly News January 25, 2021

Tokens and Parachains

How Polkadot project StaFi brings liquidity to staked assets like DOT and ETH2.
Moonbeam Upgrades Its TestNet to Moonbase Alpha v5.
Vote For Darwinia! JOIN Polkadot Ecosystem Carnival, Share 100,000 USDT!
OKEX supports Polkadot Ecology, Vote for ChainX!

Polkadot Community

Bluzelle: March To Mainnet Update: The Countdown is ON!
Plasm testnet ‘Dusty’ reached 200 nodes!
Why Polkadot Is The Hottest Crypto In China.

Polkadot Core

Improve logging to make debugging parachains easier.
Decouple Staking and Election – Part1: Support traits.
Introduces account existence providers reference counting.
Add ss58 version prefix for Patract/Jupiter (from PatractHubs).
Multi-Block Sequential Phragmén.
Allow validators to block and kick their nominator set.

Polkadot Referenda

#14 Immediate Stolen DOT lock-up request.
#54 Polkascan Foundation Social Contract with the Polkadot Community for operational. expenses of running polkascan.io during 1 March 2021 – 31 May 2021 has executed.
#55 Fearless Wallet – Stage 3 Proposal – Staking, Libraries expansion, App Improvements.
#53 Treasury Proposal – High Performance Public Infrastructure has executed.

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#41 Cancellation of Proposal 8 has executed.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

Proposal for Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2).
#66 Patract Hub’s proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript).
Motion 256 KodaDot NFT explorer.
#70 Kusama Comics: visual explainers and Polkadot/Kusama blockchain promotion in social media.
#98 Upgrade of Kusama Runtime to v2027 has passed.
#257 Proposal: Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2) has executed.
#258 Kusama Comics: visual explainers and Polkadot/Kusama blockchain promotion in social media has executed.
#259 High Performance Public Infrastructure – Milestone 1 has executed.
#260 Polkascan Foundation Social Contract with the Kusama Community for operational expenses of running polkascan.io during 1 February 2021 – 30 April 2021.
#261 OpenSquare’s treasury proposal for dotreasury M2.
#262 Fearless Wallet – Stage 3 Proposal – Staking, Libraries expansion, App Improvements.

Dates of Note

January 27, 17:00 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
January 30, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 215.
February 3, 17:05 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period (if passed).
February 3, 17:05 UTC: Start of next spendig period.
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
Q1 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
Q1 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.

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Crypto Regulation

Joe Biden Freezes FinCEN’s Crypto Wallet Rulemaking — US Crypto Regulations Under Review.
Japan Rallies Behind XRP as Ripple Faces US Litigation.
Biden Treasury pick Janet Yellen warns cryptocurrency poses terrorism risk.
Kraken Adds 26 New Crypto Trading Pairs to Capture Growing UK, Australia Markets.
EU Parliament Receives Petition Seeking to Establish Crypto Crime Victims’ Fund.

Developer Related

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Other Crypto Related News

Tether Users Flee to TRON From Ethereum Amid High Fees.
Cryptocurrency Startup Ripple’s Future Hinges on SEC Case.
DeFi on Cardano will enable users to earn yield on staked ADA.

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Polkadot Weekly News January 18, 2021

Polkadot Core

Polkadot v0.8.27 released.
Crowdloan Updates.
Migrate substrate pallets to use `pallet!`
Storage chains part 1.
Adds propose parachain pallet.
Update the Grafana dashboards.
Add ss58 version prefix for CORD (from Dhiway).

Polkadot Referenda

#14 Immediate Stolen DOT lock-up request

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#41 Cancellation of Proposal 8 has executed.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.
#53 Treasury Proposal – High Performance Public Infrastructure has executed.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#63 Make Kusama database snapshots available on Polkashots.io.
Proposal for Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2).
#250 “Virtual Niche” – The World’s First Crypto Art Exhibition with Kusama Network has executed.
#66 Patract Hub’s proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript).
Motion 253 issue a referendum for upgrading the Kusama runtime to v2027 has executed.
Motion 254 Patract Hub’s proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript) has executed.
Motion 255 artist Jessica Angel in collaboration with the Vancouver Biennale share Milestone #2 for the project Voxel Bridge has executed.
Motion 256 KodaDot NFT explorer.
#70 Kusama Comics: visual explainers and Polkadot/Kusama blockchain promotion in social media.

Polkadot Community

Polkadot-js 2020 flashback.
Web3 Foundation Grants Program Reaches 200 Projects Milestone.
January 2021 SORA, Polkaswap, & Fearless Dev Update.
Phala Community Roundup 2020

Dates of Note

January 20, 16:35 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
January 22, 16:35 UTC: Start of next spending period.
January 27, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 212.
January 30, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 215.
February 3, 15:35 UTC: Potential dispatch of referendum 13 (if passed).
February 3, 15:35 UTC: Voting of referendum 14 ends (if passed).
February 3, 15:35 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period (if passed).
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
Q1 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
Q1 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.

Tokens and Parachains

Moonbeams Glimmer (GMLR) Token.
Moonbeams River Token.
Announcing Plasm Network Parachain on Rococo V1.
StaFi Q1 Roadmap– Launch and Integration of rToken.

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Crypto Regulation

Kraken to halt XRP trading for U.S. users starting Jan. 29.
US Lawmakers Reintroduce Crypto Crime Bill to Combat ‘Terrorist Use.’
EU Parliament Receives Petition Seeking to Establish Crypto Crime Victims’ Fund.
South Korea to introduce a 20% tax on crypto trading profits in 2023

Developer Related

NFT Crash Course – Enter the Metaverse.

Other Crypto Related News

How Ripple plans to defend SEC charges over XRP token.
Ethereum Co-founder and Cardano CEO Wants to Help Jack Dorsey Decentralize Twitter
Massive blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming bitcoin mining.
Africa to bring 100 million users to DeFi in three years from now, says founder of Cardano

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Polkadot Weekly News January 11, 2021

Polkadot Core

Added new bootnode to chain spec’s.
Participation Lottery Pallet.
Contracts: Allow runtime authors to define a chain extension.
*: Update to libp2p v0.33.0.
Subkey should not import the entire world.
Babe: expose next epoch data.

Polkadot Referenda

#13 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug has passed.
Slashing occurred for “LLC”-identified validators in era 215.

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#41 Cancellation of Proposal 8 has executed.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.
#52 @Oneblock Substrate Hackathon Proposal has exeuted.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#63 Make Kusama database snapshots available on Polkashots.io.
Proposal for Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2).
#250 “Virtual Niche” – The World’s First Crypto Art Exhibition with Kusama Network has executed.
#66 Patract Hub’s proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript).

Polkadot Community

SushiSwap’s roadmap for 2021 reveals integration with Polkadot.
Polkadot becomes first blockchain platform to rebrand through a bounty program.
Open Call for Proposals: Polkadot Decoded Spring 2021 Edition.
Polkadot-js Extension Release Update.
Rococo testnet V1 parachain registration has started.

Dates of Note

January 11, 1:00 UTC: Rococo V1 parachain registration opening will occur.
January 12, 13:00 UTC: Start of new staking era.
January 13, 13:00 UTC: NFT Crash Course – Enter the Metaverse.
January 13, 15:00 UTC: Election of new ouncil Canidates.
January 22, 15:00 UTC: Start of next spending period.
January 27, 15:00 UTC: Application of slashes from era 212.
January 30, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 215.
February 3, 15:06 UTC: Potential dispatch of referendum 13 (if passed).
February 3, 15:06 UTC: Voting of referendum 14 ends (if passed).
February 3, 15:06 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period (if passed).
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.

Tokens

Introducing the Polkaswap Testnet.
Vendetta Incentive Program Roundup.

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Crypto Regulation

US Federal Regulator Says Banks Can Conduct Payments Using Stablecoins.
Coinbase to suspend trading in cryptocurrency XRP after US watchdog filed charges against its creator, Ripple.

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Other Crypto Related News

Ripple ‘Tried’ to Settle With SEC Ahead of XRP Suit, CEO Says.
You Can Now Pay Elon Musk in Bitcoin.
Warp Finance adds Chainlink oracles to protect against flash loans.
Tether is launching on Hermez — an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution that uses ZK-Rollups.

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Polkadot Weekly News January 4, 2021

Polkadot Core

FRAME v2 (#[pallet] macro).
Allow council to slash treasury tip.
Substrate V.3.0 which will bring Ethereum compatibility likely to be released in 1st half of 2021.

Polkadot Referenda

#13 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug is ongoing.

Polkadot Proposals

#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#41 Cancellation of Proposal 8 has executed.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.
#48 Treasury Proposal: Patract Hub’s treasury proposal for Europa (sandbox) v0.2 has executed.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#95 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug has executed.
#63 Make Kusama database snapshots available on Polkashots.io.

Polkadot Community

Polkadot becomes first blockchain platform to rebrand through a bounty program.

Dates of Note

January 5, 15:36 UTC: Start of new staking era.
January 6, 15:00 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
January 6, 15:00 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period.
January 6, 15:00 UTC: Voting ends for referendum 13.
January 11, 1:00 UTC: Rococo V1 parachain registration opening will occur.
January 13, 13:00 UTC: NFT Crash Course – Enter the Metaverse.
January 22, 15:00 UTC: Start of next spending period.
January 27, 15:00 UTC: Application of slashes from era 212.
January 30, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 215.
February 3, 15:00 UTC: Potential dispatch of referendum 13 (if passed).
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.

Tokens

Announcing Polkastarter Council For Governance.
BNC+ZLK Giveaway! Polkadot DeFi Protocol Bifrost partners with Zenlink for Polkadot Staking liquidity and DEX.

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Crypto Regulation

FinCEN Wants US Citizens to Disclose Offshore Crypto Holdings of $10K+.
Russian Oil Drilling Giant Opens a Crypto Mining Farm Run on Gas Energy.
The US has already lost the 2020 crypto regulation race to Europe.
Crypto Exchange Binance Terminates Korea Operations Due to Low Usage.

Developer Related

Substrate Seminar.
Substrate-to-Substrate Bridge Design Deep-Dive and Internal Audit.

Other Crypto Related News

Dogecoin Jumps 20% After Elon Musk’s Twitter Shout-Out; Bitcoin Joke Spurs Dialogue With Saylor.
Ethereum’s Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism plans to release its preliminary mainnet on January 15.
Binance to delist Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency after SEC lawsuit.

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Polkadot Weekly News January 11, 2021

Polkadot Core

Added new bootnode to chain spec’s.
Participation Lottery Pallet.
Contracts: Allow runtime authors to define a chain extension.
*: Update to libp2p v0.33.0.
Subkey should not import the entire world.
Babe: expose next epoch data.

Polkadot Referenda

#13 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug has passed.
Slashing occurred for “LLC”-identified validators in era 215.

Polkadot Bounties

Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.

Polkadot Proposals

#13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#41 Cancellation of Proposal 8 has executed.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.
#52 @Oneblock Substrate Hackathon Proposal has exeuted.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#63 Make Kusama database snapshots available on Polkashots.io.
Proposal for Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2).
#250 “Virtual Niche” – The World’s First Crypto Art Exhibition with Kusama Network has executed.
#66 Patract Hub’s proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript).

Polkadot Community

SushiSwap’s roadmap for 2021 reveals integration with Polkadot.
Polkadot becomes first blockchain platform to rebrand through a bounty program.
Open Call for Proposals: Polkadot Decoded Spring 2021 Edition.
Polkadot-js Extension Release Update.
Rococo testnet V1 parachain registration has started.

Dates of Note

January 11, 1:00 UTC: Rococo V1 parachain registration opening will occur.
January 12, 13:00 UTC: Start of new staking era.
January 13, 13:00 UTC: NFT Crash Course – Enter the Metaverse.
January 13, 15:00 UTC: Election of new ouncil Canidates.
January 22, 15:00 UTC: Start of next spending period.
January 27, 15:00 UTC: Application of slashes from era 212.
January 30, 15:36 UTC: Application of slashes from era 215.
February 3, 15:06 UTC: Potential dispatch of referendum 13 (if passed).
February 3, 15:06 UTC: Voting of referendum 14 ends (if passed).
February 3, 15:06 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period (if passed).
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.

Tokens

Introducing the Polkaswap Testnet.
Vendetta Incentive Program Roundup.

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US Federal Regulator Says Banks Can Conduct Payments Using Stablecoins.
Coinbase to suspend trading in cryptocurrency XRP after US watchdog filed charges against its creator, Ripple.

Developer Related

Create your first substrate chain.

Other Crypto Related News

Ripple ‘Tried’ to Settle With SEC Ahead of XRP Suit, CEO Says.
You Can Now Pay Elon Musk in Bitcoin.
Warp Finance adds Chainlink oracles to protect against flash loans.
Tether is launching on Hermez — an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution that uses ZK-Rollups.

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Polkadot Weekly News December 22, 2020

We will be taking next week off for the holidays. See you all next year!

Polkadot Core

Add keccak-512 to host functions.
Participating in Council Governance is Free for First Time Voters and Successful Closing.
Issue 7143 | Refactor Treasury Pallet into Bounties, Tips, and Proposals.

Polkadot Referenda

#13 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug is ongoing.
#47 Substrate Developer Academy Scholarships has executed.

Polkadot Proposals

#7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
#2 Set the new runtime code.
#4 Increse the number of Validators to 299.
#5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
#6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
#41 Cancellation of Proposal 8 has executed.
#10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
#39 The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Polkadot network) from December 2020 to February 2021.
#48 Treasury Proposal: Patract Hub’s treasury proposal for Europa (sandbox) v0.2.
#49 Treasury Proposal: Governance-focused Mobile App for all Substrate-based networks.

Kusama Proposals and Referenda

#95 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug.
“Virtual Niche” – The World’s First Crypto Art Exhibition with Kusama Network
Patract Hub’s proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript).
#249 Treasury Proposal: Adding KSM to Ramp’s SDK so that KSM could be bought frictionlessly across multiple dApps and wallets.

Polkadot Community

Rococo V1 Parachain testnet is up and running.
Polkadot Thousand Validators Program.
Polkadot Governance Explained with Bill Laboon.
ELLIPAL hardware wallet is soon adding support for DOT.
Se Habla Polkadot: Moonbeam.

Dates of Note

December 23, 13:17 UTC: Election for new council candidates.
December 23, 15:36 UTC: Start of new staking area.
December 28, 1:06 UTC: Voting ends for motion 48.
December 28, 3:06 UTC: Voting ends for motion 49.
December 29, 11:27 UTC: Start of next spending period via treasury.
December 16, 15:00 UTC: Polkadot Conversations – Session 3 – Fireside Chat with Bill Laboon.
January 6, 13:15 UTC: Application of slashes from era 188.
January 6, 13:15 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period.
Q1 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
Q1 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.

Tokens

Moonbeam Integrates Band Protocol to Power Ethereum-Compatible Smart Contracts on Polkadot.

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Crypto Regulation

US Lawmakers Caution Against Regulations Restricting Use of Self-Hosted Crypto Wallets.
Huobi Crypto Exchange Returning to US After Winning Nevada Trust License.

Developer Related

Substrate Runtime Developer Academy.
Substrate introduction in Spanish.

Other Crypto Related News

Coinbase reportedly taps Goldman Sachs for IPO.
Elon Musk Inquires About Moving ‘Large Transactions’ to Bitcoin.
More Than $1B Ether Staked on Ethereum 2.0.

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